How to ask Spring Cloud Config server to checkout configuration from specific branch?

According to the documentation, the configuration you want to set in your config client is:

spring.cloud.config.label=mybranch

Where mybranch is an existing branch in your git repo.

You can specify the default branch (more generally, Git label) that a config server uses if a client does not specify the label, via property spring.cloud.config.server.git.default-label, perhaps this is what you are after? Certainly solves the issue for me!

Config server designed to use profile to separate environment. Example:

/{application}/{profile}[/{label}]
/{application}-{profile}.yml
/{label}/{application}-{profile}.yml
/{application}-{profile}.properties
/{label}/{application}-{profile}.properties

The branching make configuration inconsistency.

Concept of config server is based on 12-factor config (http://12factor.net/config ) .

Check it out for detail reason.